![Major General Thomas Sumter, engraved from a drawing by W. C. Johnson after the portrait by Charles Willson Peale](/sites/default/files/2022-02/thomas-sumter.jpg)
Major General Thomas Sumter, engraved from a drawing by W.C. Johnson after the portrait by Charles Willson Peale. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, 1839
(1734-1832) Thomas Sumter was a distinguished general in the Revolutionary War who lived in Sumter County.